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the Times Square Business Improvement District Study, and a number of newspaper reports and correspondence from citizens. DCP examined signage and neighborhood conditions in six study areas containing sexually oriented businesses, also surveying local organizations, businesses, police officers, real estate brokers, and sanitation department officials in each of the six areas. It also comparatively analyzed criminal complaints and assessed property values in the study areas and in control areas without sexually oriented businesses. The DCP concluded that other localities' studies had found sexually oriented businesses to have negative secondary effects including "increased crime rates, depreciation of property values, [and] deterioration of community character and the quality of urban life." It found that between 1984 and 1993 the number of sexually oriented businesses in New York City increased from 131 to 177. The DCP found that sexually oriented businesses tend to cluster, especially in central areas and along major vehicular routes connecting central business districts with outlying city areas and suburbs. Crime report statistics in New York City did not show higher crime rates in areas with sexually oriented businesses than in areas without them, but property values in proximity to sex businesses grew at an appreciably slower rate than in areas away from such businesses. The DCP found widespread fear of sex businesses' secondary effects on the part of the citizenry, and also found that survey respondents indicating that their businesses or neighborhoods had not suffered adverse secondary effects tended to be the ones living in areas with isolated sex businesses. Real estate brokers overwhelmingly reported that sex businesses would have negative effects on surrounding property values. Finally, the DCP found that signage for adult businesses tended to be larger and more garish than other nearby signage—a source of concern to residents living nearby. Based on its findings, the DCP recommended special regulation of sexually oriented businesses, advising that the city specifically consider "restrictions on the location of adult uses in proximity to residential areas, to houses of worship, to schools and to each other." OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA June, 1992 Jon Stephen Gustin, a retired sergeant of the Oklahoma City Police Department, authored a report on the successful abatement of adult oriented business nuisances in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma from 1984 – 1989. This report narrates the history of Oklahoma City's successful efforts to combat the negative secondary effects of sexually oriented businesses. Active police enforcement of laws relating to sex businesses began after a strong, grass- roots campaign called for a response to the concentration of so many sex-businesses in one city. Initially, prosecution of illegal sexual activities was hampered by poor or nonexistent laws and lax police enforcement. The police began an active anti-prostitution effort and arrest records were published by the media and TV stations carried names and faces of the people involved. Initially, police made several arrests at known houses of prostitution. Adult bookstores with peepshow booths also posed particular problems. Specimens of seminal fluid on walls and floors contributed to the forced closure of several such businesses. The district attorney's office consistently won the cases it brought against those committing illegal acts in sexually oriented businesses. Nude dancing businesses were also the source of several criminal and illicit sexual conduct, with undercover police officers making arrests for illegal sex acts on the premises of 14 000027